Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gate Cfv Solutions Inc. manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. MELARAGNO, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, currently handling 2 of the pending actions.
The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the 5 pending office actions are within the same general technology area, they involve several different technical specialties. Practitioners must navigate the preferences of 4 distinct examiners and the standards of 3 different art units, with a particular focus on the 2 actions assigned to MELARAGNO, MICHAEL. The distribution of actions across multiple examiners suggests a relatively low concentration of work per individual. However, the presence of various art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field requires a strategy that can adapt to different supervisory guidelines while maintaining technical consistency across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 2 | 67.5% | +11.6% |
| GRUBY, RANDALL A | 1 | 62.4% | +43.2% |
| CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1 | 67.8% | +14.4% |
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.7% | +19.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17142893 | BAR GUN | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 16d |
| 19174529 | PRESSURIZED DISPENSING SYSTEM | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17142893 | BAR GUN | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 16d |
| 19174529 | PRESSURIZED DISPENSING SYSTEM | GRUBY, RANDALL A | — |
| 18657659 | Dispensing System | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | — |
| 18200698 | HIGH RATIO FLUID CONTROL | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | — |
| 16391168 | CARTRIDGE DEVICE | ROST, ANDREW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 3 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19174529 | PRESSURIZED DISPENSING SYSTEM | GRUBY, RANDALL A | 3754 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 18657659 | Dispensing System | CAMPBELL, NATASHA N. | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18200698 | HIGH RATIO FLUID CONTROL | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17142893 | BAR GUN | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jan 06, 2021 |
| 16391168 | CARTRIDGE DEVICE | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialGate Cfv Solutions Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Michael Melaragno has the most, with 2 of Gate Cfv Solutions Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
